Taking some time out to enjoy herself with pals on Saturday night, after Little Mix scored some Brit nominations, the star headed off to see a live band.

As various performers took to the stage in front of her crew, while they all tucked into some delicious looking pizza (her mates, not the performers), punters tuning in became a little wary when Ignition came on and Jesy uploaded her reaction to Instagram.

We’re sure she wasn’t trying to be rude (sorry, we had to) but at one stage she flipped the camera onto herself as was heard saying: ‘Ohhh Ignition R Kelly’.

She was enjoying a night out when R Kelly’s song came on (Picture: Instagram)

In another video uploaded straight after, she sang the lyrics into the camera as friends danced around her.

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Fans immediately took to social media upon seeing the clip to blast the singer, however Jesy has now removed the two clips that were mingled in alongside a lot of other songs she was enjoying last night.

One voiced their disappointment in a few things they felt Jesy had done that missed the mark: ‘This is going to far. I can’t believe Jesy Nelson sang along and even was happy that a R Kelly song came on.

‘After the n word incident and that tasteless pregnancy prank it is just too much, especially when she never apologized. I am disappointed… the other girls don’t. [sic]’

Jesy Nelson , what where u think even the way u said “ooo r Kelly” like I don’t see any logic behind this or a reason

Jesy Nelson what the fuck? First you film a white person saying the n word and put it on Instagram and now you are bopping along with R Kelly after what has just happened? Shame on you… I'm done with you, CANCELLED. You just ruin LM's reputation too. Bye sis

However, Mixers also rallied around the singer, as they stood up for her in the face of backlash.

‘If your saying Jesy Nelson supports R Kelly – your SO DUMB [sic],’ one wrote on Twitter. ‘You need to stop coming for people who sings his song and go for the man that’s you lot hate…because your hating so much yet none of you actually doing anything about it. ( that’s if you care about it that much).’

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She’s obviously a fan of the song – as millions of other punters in the world were – however, it comes at a time when Kelly has had some pretty serious allegations levelled against him after the airing of the Lifetime docu-series, Surviving R Kelly.

Claims in the Lifetime series included his alleged sexual preference for underage women, allegations he kept a woman as a sex slave, and rumours that he had created his own ‘sex cult’ in which he would keep control of the women and their day-to-day lives.

While the attention on the allegations has ramped up since the airing of Surviving R Kelly, a six-part Lifetime series recounting the multiple allegations of physical, mental and emotional abuse by the singer towards various women over the last 20 years, rumours have been rampant since the 90s, when the singer allegedly married Aaliyah when she was 15 and he was 27.

However, while the Shout Out To My Ex songstress was busy pouting into the camera, one of her pals in the background dropped the N-word when chanting the lyrics to Chris Brown’s Freaky Friday.

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Jesy’s Instagram followers were quick to tell the star what had happened, and she instantly removed the video from her story.

Metro.co.uk contacted reps for comment.

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